OT but Fun

[David Sanders]

On 23 May 2010 12:35, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:
> At 6:12am -0400 Sun, 23 May 2010, David Sanders wrote:
>>> Not. I had to turn off javascript so that Google's little moment of
>>> instanity didn't keep pegging my cpu at 40-50%.
>>
>> Your computer is broken - it didn't even make my CPU go above 2% in
>> Firefox on Ubuntu 10 (This is a lowly 1.5Ghz laptop).
>
> Are you sure you tested Firefox/Ubuntu 10?  I see VMWare in that process
> listing, and the widgets look like OS X.  While Mr. NoOp doesn't
> understand the word "pegging", his CPU usage is spot on to what I
> experienced with Chromium.  Firefox even went so far as to have jolty
> animation and did peg a core.  I have gobs of RAM, a 2.2 GHz dual core
> CPU, and nothing else running at the moment, so I suspect it's you who
> has an optimized setup, or something else non-standard.
>
> Kevin
>


No I am using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 with Mac4Lin theming.

VMWare is running FreeBSD (which is doing a slocate db update).

Don't be so silly.